Familiar themes will dominate the 2012 legislative session — economic growth, school funding and taxes — but they’ll be complicated by an election year in which lawmakers are fighting to keep their seats and a few are running for Congress.

Democratic State Rep. Joe Miklosi, who hopes to capitalize on the newly drawn lines in the state’s legislative district map, may find out that the competiveness of the 6th Congressional District goes both ways, CBSDenver.com blogger Dominic Dezzutti writes.